House Built on Sand
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A slice of life among the Russian intelligentsia on the eve of World
War II. Ada and Sonya were both 30 in 1937. Ada and her friends play a
practical joke on Sonya, sending her a love letter from a supposed
admirer. But history plays its own sadistic practical joke: a haunting
reminder of Stalin's psychotic purge of 1938 and the nightmarish
German siege of Leningrad. "Beautiful, leisurely and exceedingly
subtle" (Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times). Russian with English